Device & Virtue

S6E5 - The Rise and Fall of the Expert

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WHOSE EXPERTS? WHICH INFORMATION?

Doctors and scientists have fallen on hard times. Experts are facing a crisis of trust, and we think technology is a major factor. We explore why on this episode of Device & Virtue.

Chris proposes how elders, priests, and magicians gave way to the modern expert, how digital media has led to the expert’s decline, and who is rising up in their wake.

Meanwhile, Adam says that information overload is something the Bible addresses in surprising ways. Navigating the new information economy starts with some age-old wisdom.

LINKS & RESOURCES

  • Adam recounts a theory about places like Stonehenge and Easter Island being “memory spaces.” Learn more in Lynne Kelly’s book, The Memory Code.
  • Adam and Chris talked about Google’s nGram search engine for finding the rise of the term expert
  • But they didn’t know what n-gram meant! Here’s the answer


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